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Plot Summary:
It is the story of a man who had financial troubles. He was married several times and had to pay for several kids. He wanted to earn some extra money by playing in a cafe. But one drunken guest supposes he is a waiter and pays his bill to him. So the main hero finds his chance - he goes through restaurants, pretending that he is a waiter and asks people to hand their cash to him.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: cult classic, cult film
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Brother for All the Money (1979)
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Honza and Zuzana are very young husband and wife. They have a little daughter of whom willingly occasionally take care the grandparents and Honza's fifteen-year-old brother Martin. Zuzana continues studying and Honza devotes all weekends as an amateur competitor to the motor-cycles at the speedway. Zuzana is not interested in motor-cycles. Martin holds responsible for his brother's marriage and at the advice of his friend Magda, who is of the same age, invites her sister-in-law to the club of Hucul horses so that she does not feel bored. But by misfortunes and unexplained quarrels both young husband and wife start being jealous of one another.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 83 min
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Joachim, Put It in the Machine (1974)
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A sincere provincial young man, Frantisek Koudelka leaves to work in Prague. For the trip he buys a computer made horoscope with biorhythms charts, marked according to his date of birth, there are trappy, precarious, unsuccessful and even critical days and few successful days. The clumsy luckless person Frantisek has finally a guidance for his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Straw Hat (1972)
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Slacker Maurice Fadinar wasted his whole inheritance and the only way out of this situation, as it seems, to marry Helen Nonankur - daughter of a wealthy farmer. At the last meeting with his mistress in a nearby forest Fadinar's horse eats straw hat which belongs to a married lady, spending time in the company of young and hot Lieutenant Emil. Emil literally puts a knife to Maurice throat - or the lady will get back the exact same hat immediately, or he will arrange such a scandal that no wedding will not happen.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy
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The Big Wash (1968)
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Sickened to see his students always sleeping in class, a teacher with a colleague and an anarchist start a war against the television. They climbed on Paris roofs to coat the T.V. antennas with a special product cutting the signal reception.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: detective, slapstick comedy
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Hubert the Smart Boy (1985)
Plot Summary:
Titulní hrdina komediálního filmu je typický žižkovský frajer. S chytrostí a šarmem si vyřizuje otevřené účty s policejním inspektorem Mourkem, který ho chce stůj co stůj dostat do kriminálu. Jenže Fešák Hubert unikne z každé nastražené pasti a nakonec připraví na zavilého policistu a jeho podřízené elegantní podraz. Z hledaných zločinců, které Mourek díky Hubertovi se slávou dopadne, se vyklubou nevinní lidé. Děj se odehrává na počátku třicátých let, v době hospodářské krize. Snímek vychází z tradičního pojetí žánru a pohybuje se v rovině určité nadsázky.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: crying, detective, poliziottesco
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Coyote's Morning (2001)
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Kuba, a young cartoon artist who works as a waiter at sophisticated parties, falls in love with beautiful Noemi and accidentally gets involved in gangster affairs.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick comedy
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Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)
Plot Summary:
This comedy is about one average family. The father works as master in the factory and his son is studying on high school. One day father must start to visit the evening school. It's the same school as his son visiting. The lives both students are connecting together. The son must teach the math and physics his own father. The father getting to know, that the life of the students is not simple as he supposed.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 91 min
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Agent 38-24-36 (1964)
Plot Summary:
In this Eduardo Molinaro Spy-Spoof, Anthony Perkins plays a Russian spy sent out to steal sensitive information from NATO about military mobilization. Without much intelligence of his own, the distrusted agent of Soviet intelligence needs all the help he can get from his "talented" partner Penelope Lightfeather (Bardot) as they scatter around the French countryside for secret rendez-vous' while trying to avoid being caught by counter intelligence agents and distrustful communist operatives.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, exciting, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, parody, surprise ending
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The Sex Thief (1973)
Plot Summary:
A struggling pulp fiction writer who doubles as an incompetent jewel thief. He gets caught in the act every time, but he uses his looks and charm to make the best of it. Soon he becomes a celebrity. Wealthy women start leaving their jewels out like milk and cookies for Santa Claus in hopes that the sex thief will unlawfully invade their domiciles.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, crying, spoof, poliziottesco, parody
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Swap Meet at the Love Shack (1973)
Plot Summary:
The film Liebesmarkt featuring a cute blonde Ingrid Steeger, not only became a cult actress stupidity of German youth who watched only American cinema. Ingrid was a true nudist and undressed in front of the camera without any pose. She wore a gold chain around the waist and a bracelet on his left ankle. Her walk was easy and graceful gestures. Actress she was so-so. But the beautiful graceful little creatures do not require a game in the Stanislavsky. It should please the eye movements smooth and not too often look into the lens.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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School Teacher in College (1978)
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Edwige Fenech stars in this Italian sex-comedy as the new teacher in all-boys Catholic school. All of the boys desire for the chance to "learn" more about their new teacher, but only 1 student gets the opportunity.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, vintage, hot
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A Nice Plate of Spinach (1977)
Plot Summary:
The heroes of this absurd comedy, full of confusion and humor are Dzharda Zemanek and Frantisek Liska.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychotronic, buddy comedy, slapstick comedy, dark comedy, alternative comedy, campy, cult film
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Killing Dad (1989)
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A man, always very devoted to his mother, decides to look for his father whom he never met. He meats a seducing older woman prone to drinking and her aged boyfriend whom she grew tired of.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: non-linear, crying, independent film, black comedy, freeze frame, dark comedy
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15 from Rome (1963)
Plot Summary:
The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: anthology, crying, detective, freeze frame, dark comedy, italian comedy
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Get Charlie Tully (1972)
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Charlie Tully and womanising Reggie Peek con two rich Italians out of £500,000 but during their flight out Charlie is arrested for coning an American and a dog. Reggie stores the money in a Swiss Bank and after Charlie is released is about to tell him which Bank when he is killed by Sid Sabbath's gang whose girlfriend Reggie had an affair with. The only lead is four tattoos that is on the girls Reggie had affairs with while Charlie was in jail. But Sabbath is on Charlie's trail to kill him and the Italians contract the mob - to find the money and then kill him.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying
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How to Seduce Your Teacher (1979)
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There's a new girl in school, Angela, the Headmaster's neice. Every male will try to seduce her, even her uncle. Meanwhile she will drive the philosophy's teacher mad and her best friend Irma will have a good time with the classmates. Will they get the grades?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic, teen sex comedy, slapstick comedy, slapstick, teen comedy
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Pedro, Arturo and Eligio are three college professors who lost their job because of economic crisis. Accidentally they find a solution for all of their problems; a multi-vitamin that allows them to party all night long without any side effects. The three professors will be launched into the world of nightclubs and the shady business, in order to market the merchandise. Of course, it seems that they are not as prepared for it as they thought.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, detective, freeze frame
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...aber Jonny! (1973)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: freeze frame
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Historias lamentables (2020)
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This satirical anthology tells the surreal stories of a gift for Don Horacio, a trip to the beach for Bermejo, a life-changing relationship between Tina and the young immigrant Ayoub, and a new client for a company that specializes in excuses.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: surreal, anthology, humorous, ironic, crying, slapstick comedy, dark comedy
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A Girl in Australia (1971)
Plot Summary:
The film is about an old fashioned Italian with moral values of the 1930/40's ,who has to find a wife in the modern, woman's liberated society of Australia of the 1960/70's.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, Australia
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, epic, crying
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Rising High (2020)
Plot Summary:
Charting the rise and fall of three corrupt real estate agents who accumulate absurd wealth in no time but fall into a vortex of fraud, greed and drugs.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, humorous, serious, captivating, intellectual, crying, detective, freeze frame
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The Night Before (1988)
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: retro, cult classic, humorous, semi serious, independent film, teen comedy
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Taking Chances (2009)
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When he discovers that an Indian casino is about to be built over the town's historic battlefield, Chase Revere, the self-appointed protector of a small town's rather meager place in American history, joins forces with sexy but dangerous town siren Lucy Shanks to launch an all-out offensive against the project - earning the wrath of the entire town.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic, independent film
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My Sweet Little Village (1985)
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The movie's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a mentally retarded young man, in a tight-knit village community. The sweet-tempered Otík works as an assistant truck driver with Mr. Pávek, his older colleague and practical-minded neighbor. Pávek's family takes care of Otík, whose parents are dead. However, the two coworkers become at odds over Otík's inability to perform even the simplest tasks. Pávek demands that Otík be transferred to assist another driver, who happens to be a choleric and suspicious man named Turek (Turk in Czech). Rather than work with Turek, Otík decides to accept an offer of employment in Prague, but finds he does not fit in to the city life. After discovering that the transfer of Otík to Prague was a trick by a crooked politician to get a deal on Otík's large inherited house, Pávek agrees to give Otík a second chance and retrieves him from the city to resume their work together.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Wonderful Years That Sucked (1997)
Plot Summary:
Capturing the dark humor of Czech author Michal Viewegh's chronicle of life after the Velvet Revolution, this black comedy chronicles three decades in the life of a small Czech family. While the original novel centered on the protagonist Kvido from his conception through his adulthood, first time director Petr Nikolaev and screenwriter Jan Novak changed the focus to his parents Milena, an extremely self-effacing lawyer who acts on stage in her spare time, and Ales, a rather aimless government worker who tends to drift wherever the wind takes him. The lives of Ales and Milena change dramatically following the Russian invasion of Prague in 1968.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 713
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 109 min
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The Wild Goose Chase (1975)
Plot Summary:
The whole intrigue is centered around carte-blanche documents kept in a vault. Whoever fills in the blank becomes the owner of a revue. Big money is involved. The nephew of the owner of the vault is trying to cheat his uncle and have his name in the documents. Everything is even more complicated because the manager of the bank has a finger in the pie, too. Who but a humble bank-teller (Pierre Richard) will ruin the scheme?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slapstick, humorous, realistic, not serious, neurotic, detective, slapstick comedy, poliziottesco
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The Sensuous Nurse (1975)
Plot Summary:
Greedy relatives hire a sensual caregiver to hasten the demise of a wealthy count suffering from a heart condition.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 799
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sensual, crying, sex comedy, freeze frame, dark comedy, low brow humor, hot
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Kolya (1996)
Plot Summary:
The Czech Republic Director Jan Sverák tells in this Oscar winning film the story of the disillusioned Prague man named Cellisten Louka, who after a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant must suddenly take responsibility for her son. However it’s not long before the communication barrier is broken between the two new family members.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Czech Republic, UK, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, sincere, touching, realistic, uplifting, feel good, spiritual, poignant, art house
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Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016)
Plot Summary:
A sorority moves in next door to the home of Mac and Kelly Radner who have a young child. The Radner's enlist their former nemeses from the fraternity to help battle the raucous sisters.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 129000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, China
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, hilarious, humorous, exciting, ironic, saga, sex comedy, anamorphic, crying
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If I Were Rich Man (2019)
Plot Summary:
A man which wife is filing to divorce him wins 25 million EUR in the lotto, hiding her to prevent sharing the half of the prize.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, humorous, entertaining, melancholic, disturbing, crying, remake of french film, neo screwball comedy